Folk Customs

In researching for this site the out-of-copyright texts available at https://archive.org/ have been invaluable, but in trying to read them in electronic form I often found that the scanned pages had just been thrown through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program with no attempt to moderate the gibberish that these programs often produce.

Whilst proof reading these texts for my own use therefore I ended up with documents I could then publish myself.

I make a small profit on these items (most of the price is dictated by manufacturing costs.) Any profits will be used to offset the costs of running this site.

FOLKLORE

In Olden Days – Legends of Rochdale and its Neighbourhood by Rev. G. R. Oakley

The Mabinogion translated by Lady Charlotte Guest

Traditions of Lancashire Vol 1 by John Roby

Traditions of Lancashire Vol 2 by John Roby

Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-Lore by Charles Hardwick

CUSTOMS

Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time– P. H. Ditchfield

Rush-Bearing by Alfred Burton

The Sword Dances of Northern England Together With The Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley by Cecil J. Sharp

HISTORY

Guy Fawkes or a Complete History of the Gunporder Treason by Thomas Lathbury

John Bright by Charles Anthony Vince

Old and New Rochdale By William Robertson

Rochdale and the Vale of Whitworth by William Robertson

Rochdale Past and Present By William Robertson

Samuel Bamford’s Autobiography, Volume 1: Early Days

Samuel Bamford’s Autobiography, Volume 2: Passages in the Life of a Radical

Self-Help By the People – The History of the Rochdale Pioneers by George Jacob Holyoake

The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth by Lewis H. Berens

The Life of Dr. John Dee (1527 – 1608) by Charlotte Fell Smith

The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson - Samuel Smiles

Three Accounts of Peterloo and The Story of Peterloo by Francis Archibald Bruton

Through England on a Side Saddle by Celia Fiennes

Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough

LITERATURE

Dialect of South Lancashire or Tim Bobbin’s Tummus and Meary by John Collier

Lancashire Sketches by Edwin Waugh

The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth